Strong vertical wind shear weakened Tropical Storm Hilda again on Wednesday and the Tropical Storm Watch for the Big Island of Hawaii was discontinued by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Hilda was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0N and longitude 152.4\u00b0W which put it about 245 miles (395 km) southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hilda was moving toward the west at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1003 mb.<\/p>\n
An upper level low north of the Hawaiian Islands is generating very strong southwesterly winds that are blowing right over the top of Tropical Storm Hilda.\u00a0 Those winds are blowing thunderstorms away from the core of the circulation.\u00a0 The western half and inner core of Hilda consists of bands of low clouds rotating counterclockwise around the exposed center of circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms continue to form in some of the bands northeast of the center of circulation, but the strong upper level winds quickly blow the tops off of those storms.\u00a0 Since the upper level low isn’t moving, strong vertical wind shear is expected to continue and Hilda should slowly spin down.\u00a0 It is likely to weaken to tropical depression status on Thursday.<\/p>\n
As the circulation gets shallower, Hilda will be steered by the winds in the lower atmosphere.\u00a0 Those winds are blowing from the east and the will push the tropical storm or its remnants toward the west.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Hilda would pass south of Hawaii as a tropical depression during the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Strong vertical wind shear weakened Tropical Storm Hilda again on Wednesday and the Tropical Storm Watch for the Big Island of Hawaii was discontinued by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Hilda was located at latitude 17.2\u00b0N and longitude 152.4\u00b0W which put it about 245 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}